"I regret that I have not been able to make any changes, but I am determined to clean up the place," Hashim said. "I will not give up. I will fight to get rid of them."

Official sources said a security officer against whom the Weliamuna Board of Inquiry recommended disciplinary action had been given two extensions of employment by Dias. The move has irked senior levels of the cabinet.

Dias had also side-stepped allegations that his predecessor provided services of air hostesses to politicians making it a paradise for sexual predators.
Dias dismissed the allegations as "personal matters not within our purview."